Balance

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC) We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves. Francis J. Braceland, O Magazine, April 2003 What I dream of is an art of balance. Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954), O Magazine, April 2003 So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), O Magazine, April 2003 Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within. Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955) I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time. Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, April 2003